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The Agroforestry Podcast
by University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
Whether you're new to agroforestry or you're a seasoned professional expanding your knowledge base, the Center for Agroforestry's podcast series is a source for learning and inspiration. We'll explore topics ranging from forest farming medicinal plants and mushrooms, to soil and water conservation with hedgerows and buffers, and everything in between. Subscribe to this podcast on your preferred podcast app, and stay tuned as we share the multitude of ways farmers and landowners, researchers and educators are working to reintegrate diverse woody perennial plants into multifunctional landscapes.
Episodes
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Maple Sugaring in the Lower Midwest
Missouri tree syrup makers are connected to the forest in an intimate way, attending to late winter temperature fluctuations, noticing their trees' health, and delighting in a sap flow that will result (with much time and care) in a sweet reward. Maples are not a preferred species in these…
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The Chestnut Improvement Network
After decades of trial and error, cultivar test orchards, and local breeding efforts, chestnuts are about to take a big leap towards becoming more regionally adapted and rooted in productive agroforestry systems across their range. The Chestnut Improvement Network is a participatory breeding...
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Silvopasture with Hogs: What?! How and Why
Trees and pigs may seem an unlikely combination, but in fact, hog silvopasture has been practiced for thousands of years, and is only recently making a comeback in the US. In this episode, two practitioners share their insights about raising hogs under trees. During the last in-person Perennial...
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Shiitake Happens: Integrating Fungi into Whole Farm Systems
In this episode, we inoculate a deeper understanding of how fungi can play an important role on farms with trees, both as a valuable crop and as a source of ecological revitalization. Steve Gabriel from the Cornell Small Farms Program and Wellspring Forest Farm, and Nicola MacPherson from Ozark...
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Land Access: An Enduring Presence for Perennial Farms
Secure and affordable long-term land access can be a major barrier for beginning farmers planning agroforestry endeavors. In this episode, we'll hear from a few people who support solutions to this challenge: Keefe Keeley, co-executive director of the Savanna Institute; Joe Klingelhutz, farm...
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Financing & Economics: Choosing Long-term Rewards
We close the first season of the Agroforestry Podcast with an episode intended to steer your budding tree crop ideas into grounded reality. Larry Godsey, Associate Professor of Agribusiness at Missouri Valley College and former agroforestry economist with the Center for Agroforestry, shares his...
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Agroforestry in Urban Landscapes
Urban agroforestry is more than the marriage of city farms and community forestry; there are many ways multi-story perennial food systems can take shape in these spaces. In this episode, we hear from Sarah Lovell, Director of the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry; Cathy Bukowski, PhD...
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Pawpaw: Cultivating the Elusive Fruit
Pawpaw has big potential as a specialty crop with conservation value. In this episode, learn about the plant's biology, propagation, and promising cultivars from Patrick Byers, University of Missouri Extension; and about technical and financial support for agroforestry plantings like pawpaw from...
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Made in the Shade: Silvopasture with Cattle
Silvopasture, the integration of trees with animals and forage, is a promising approach that can yield many benefits. In this episode, we'll hear from Ashley Conway, the Center for Agroforestry's silvopasture research faculty, Dusty Walter, MU's Wurdack Research Center superintendent, and Greg...
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Forest Honey from Horizontal Hives
This episode features Dr. Leo Sharashkin's seminar from the Agroforestry Academy, the Center for Agroforestry's annual intensive training program. Leo collects wild swarms of honeybees and keeps them in "horizontal", or Layens, hives to harvest forest honey that is free of agrichemicals and other...
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Tree-based Polycultures
This episode features Dr. Michael Gold, Interim Director of the Center for Agroforestry, and Red Fern Farm's Kathy Dice and Tom Wahl. Often planted and maintained for their conservation value, trees on farms can also be an integral part of a farm's crop production. With diversity comes resilience...
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Native Plants for Perennial Farms
Native plants are gaining attention in agriculture, landscaping, and wild places, in part due to growing concern about competitive invasive plants, and the importance of preserving diversity for ecosystem health. Many of these native perennial plants can also be ideal in agroforestry systems for...
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Growing American Ginseng
We've been sharing voices from the forest farming community this spring, and while there are MANY non-timber forest products that can be responsibly harvested for food, fiber, medicine, and art, American Ginseng, or Panax quinquefolius stands out; it is highly sought-after, for its economic and...
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Forest Farming 101
In this episode, forest farming experts Jeanine Davis and Eric Burkhart share the fundamentals of forest farming, from site selection to medicinal plant cultivation. You can explore more from the Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition, the Virginia Tech Root Report, and the forest farming...
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Insights from Agroforestry Change-Makers
What IS agroforestry, and why does it matter? Agroforestry professionals share their perspectives about how agroforestry can help us come together for ecological, social, and economic resilience. On this episode, we hear from: Dr. Mike Gold, Interim Director of the Center for Agroforestry; Keefe...
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Introducing The Agroforesty Podcast
The Agroforestry Podcast is a place to dig deep into the world of trees on farms and farming in forests. Check out a sample of some of the people and ideas that inspire us at the Center for Agroforestry, and subscribe to this podcast on any app!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Whether you're new to agroforestry or you're a seasoned professional expanding your knowledge base, the Center for Agroforestry's podcast series is a source for learning and inspiration. We'll explore topics ranging from forest farming medicinal plants and mushrooms, to soil and water conservation with hedgerows and buffers, and everything in between. Subscribe to this podcast on your preferred podcast app, and stay tuned as we share the multitude of ways farmers and landowners, researchers and educators are working to reintegrate diverse woody perennial plants into multifunctional landscapes.
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University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
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Whether you're new to agroforestry or you're a seasoned professional expanding your knowledge base, the Center for Agroforestry's podcast series is a source for learning and inspiration. We'll explore topics ranging from forest farming medicinal plants and mushrooms, to soil and water conservation...
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